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...dynamite bast set off by a recently expelled Guatemalan Harvard student near Dunster Bridge in Cambridge, rallied about 500 undergraduates to a "free Puerto rice, free Guatemala" demonstration last night. The riot began at about 10:30 and lasted until midnight...
...back door, to the nearby compound of the U.S. Point Four program. There he caught his breath, then scurried to the Majlis building. The incongruous, pajama-clad frame of the wrinkled Wizard of Persia burst into the middle of the closed session. Mossadegh announced that he was claiming bast, the traditional privilege of political sanctuary...
Said the London Observer of the council's bast week: "Broadly, they have supported the 'advanced' type of artist of the now well-established kind-the revolutionaries of the day-before-yesterday...
Waltari's adventurer, Michael Bast, the bastard of a Finnish strumpet, has been brought up by a middle-aged witch who lies in bed at night and sighs with desire for the local hangman. In this school of adversity Michael learns little of life, grows up to be a sort of cross between Candide and Lanny Budd. He is the kind of young man who gets seduced time & again without quite realizing what is going on, who gives his money to rascals for safekeeping, who signs a paper which helps to prove his wife a witch because a nice...
...Union put on a show whose purpose was to track the cat through history with the help of sculpture, painting and design. It took more than 250 separate items (in an exhibit entitled "Nine Lives") to spread out the story: from the Egyptians' poker-faced cat-headed goddess Bast to the Chesapeake & Ohio's pampered, machine-age Chessie...